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Plate 2. — The Find, where Snob appears on the good bay 

 horse, and Mr. Coke on Advance comes up at the rate of 

 thirty miles an hour, with the label on his back, " he kicks." 



Plate 3. — Tally-ho and Aivay ! There is a desperate rush; 

 the Squire is flourishing his whip and " blowing up " like a 

 good one, while Lord Alvanley, jack-boots and all, is pounding 

 away in the front. 



Plate 4. — A Fall over a Flight of Rails, with Lord 

 Brudenell and Jack Stevens looking back. 



Jack's answer to Lord Brudenell's inquiry who the fallen 

 gentleman is, is capital, and very characteristic of the man : 

 " Can't tell, my Lord ; but I thought it was a queerish place 

 when I came o'er it before him." We heard him give just 

 such an answer last season. We found a fo.x at some cover 

 of Lord Spencer's, not far from Althorp, which, after thread- 

 ing the woods on the line of hills in Northamptonshire, took 

 into the vale below, pointing for Floor or Flower at a merry 

 pace, but after running two or three miles, the hounds came 

 to check all on a sudden, when, close by where they threw 

 up, a gentleman in scarlet (Mr. Poyntz, M.P. for Ashburton, 

 on a visit at Althorp) was seen lying on his back in the 

 middle of a small field of hard corn, his horse having put his 

 foot into a drain, and rolled over him. Some of the party of 

 course went to his assistance immediately, and Jack, in reply 

 to the question as to who he was, said, " Can't tell, I'm sure; 

 I fear the gentleman's badly hurt ; here again ! — hounds ! — 

 here again ! — " and, with a blast of his horn, trotted forward 

 to make his cast ; " the pace was too good " to afford help, in 

 fact. 



Plate 5. — Snob's Figure, with His " Strait-cut Coat," and the 

 good bay horse " done up " at the gate, is capital. He is just 

 putting his whip under the latch to open it instead of riding 

 over. The horse is regularly gruelled. 



Plate 6. — The Elite of the Field on Their Second Horses, going 

 at a devil of a pace. The Squire close to the tail hounds, 

 followed by Mr. Holyoake, Mr. Maher, Captain Berkeley, 

 Dick Christian, Sir F. Burdett, Sir H. Goodricke, Lord 

 Alvanley and Lord Gardiner. 



